Specifically, RAF (6) and Hugo (9 & 13). Think this through: I am going on Rebecca’s panel. Why? Because it will be fun, I want to, and Rebecca is my friend. I don’t care what you think about her, but when you spew hate this way ON MY BLOG, which is against the rules no matter what, it also insults me when it’s directed toward someone it’s clear I like.

If you have issues with her, fine. If you want to talk about it, FINE. But do it as decent human adults.

Take your hate elsewhere.

]]>By: Muzzhttp://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/08/28/dragoncon-2012/#comment-340019
Thu, 30 Aug 2012 06:23:40 +0000http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=53645#comment-340019Nope. Guess that name is banned. Well, whatever it was it wasn’t me using it at the time. (couldn’t the ban list check these things against the email address? That’d sort out who’s who. Sorry to spam things up with testing like this.)
]]>By: Muzzhttp://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/08/28/dragoncon-2012/#comment-340018
Thu, 30 Aug 2012 05:12:03 +0000http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=53645#comment-340018Ok, I’m trying a slightly different ident to see if I still get moderated. (there is no reason why I would be, unless it’s blanket now. But that doesn’t seem to be the case.)
]]>By: Muzhttp://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/08/28/dragoncon-2012/#comment-340017
Thu, 30 Aug 2012 04:58:45 +0000http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=53645#comment-340017Is that Sarah or Michael Palin? I’d be interested in this mean petty bullying you’re talking about.
The last sentence is a mouthful; when was the first count? How many is more? One, two? What’s this ‘lumping in’ that’s going on in the first place?
]]>By: Hugohttp://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/08/28/dragoncon-2012/#comment-340016
Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:20:21 +0000http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=53645#comment-340016Yes, anyone who dislikes Watson and her sub-Palin vulgarity is anti-woman. Anyone who objects to the mean and petty bullying she and her twit-club go in for is anti-woman. Never mind the fact that, by last count, more skeptic women are fed up with being lumped in with her.
]]>By: VinceRNhttp://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/08/28/dragoncon-2012/#comment-340015
Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:27:23 +0000http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=53645#comment-340015I love how Rebecca Watson highlights the hate so entrenched in organized skepticism. Not so much the misogyny since I think you find the same percentage of guys that are jerks to women anywhere, what I mean is the hate brought to bear on anyone who doesn’t toe the line, on anyone who says anything negative about anything in the movement. If I could I’d go just to see all the apopleptic skeptics.

It’s unfair to characterize the whole movement that way of course, since there are also many reasonable and non-hateful folks like our host and most of the folks he seems to run with. Still, it is significant enough in the movement that I’ve never had much use for organized skepticism despite being very much a skeptic.